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The Soviet Theater
A Documentary History
In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years’ worth of archival...
Jean Rondelet
The Architect as Technician
Jean Rondelet took up his career in 1770, working for Jacques-Germain Soufflot, the architect of the most conspicuous and structurally daring church of the period, now known as the Pantheon in Paris. Rondelet assumed the...
The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings
Volume II: Venice 1540-1600
This substantial and beautifully illustrated volume documents the National Gallery’s unrivaled collection of Venetian paintings created between 1540 and 1600, including some of the greatest works commissioned by the city...
The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context
American State Papers, Petitions, Proclamations, and Letters of the Delegates to the First National Congresses
Political science professor Barry Shain has collected 174 letters, papers, petitions, and proclamations from the years directly preceding the creation of the Declaration of Independence that challenge many of the dominant...
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 2
Volume 2: January 1, 1735 through December 31, 1744
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 9
A Journey to the Western Island of Scotland
Barley, Gold, or Fiat
Toward a Pure Theory of Money
Using simple but rigorously defined mathematical models, Thomas Quint and Martin Shubik explore monetary control in a simple exchange economy. Examining how money enters, circulates, and exits an economy, they consider the...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 14
Sermons
It has been known since the publication of pre-Boswellian biographies that Samuel Johnson wrote sermons which were preached by others. The twenty-eight that have survived are presented here in their first scholarly...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 17
Volume 17: A Commentary on Mr. Pope’s Principles of Morality, Or Essay on Man (A Translation from the French)
This volume is the first scholarly edition of Samuel Johnson’s translation of Jean Pierre de Crousaz’s Commentaire sur la traduction en vers de M. Abbé Du Resnel, de l’Essai de M. Pope sur l’homme, published in 1739....
The Sixteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings, with French Paintings Before 1600
The National Gallery, London possesses an important collection of paintings by 16th-century Netherlandish artists, including Joachim Beuckelaer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jean Gossart, and Quinten Massys. They are...